Maintenance costs would be interesting to compare as would average ready time...or whatever the Air Force call it.
If it can take 1/10 the damage that an A-10 can I’d be surprised. A-10’s work and have a mission record to grossly prove it. If they need a local tactical aircraft, they should stick to the overall A-10 design and just build new ones of those. A-10’s would probably come in no more than 30-40% over this crafts unit cost, and that’s not considering that the tooling and stuff associated with the A-10’s original production run is probably still lying around.
If it isn’t broke, but your taxpayers are, DON’T fix it...